• Landlords have the right to evict tenants in certain situations.apartment for rent image by dead_account from Fotolia.com
  
  Even when there is no written lease between a landlord and a tenant, there is still a tenancy. As a result, landlords may evict tenants in Pennsylvania even if there is no formal agreement between the parties. In Pennsylvania, landlords may evict tenants for a number of reasons, most commonly for failure to pay rent.
  
  

Grounds

• In Pennsylvania, a landlord may evict a residential tenant for failure to pay rent or habitual late payment of rent, destruction or damage willfully made to the rental property, habitual disorderly conduct, violations of terms of the agreement of the parties or if the tenant is convicted of a drug offense.
  
  

Process

• A landlord must first give a tenant written notice of a lease violation, even when a lease is oral and unwritten. If the tenant fails to correct the situation, the landlord may then file an eviction lawsuit with the court. Additionally, Pennsylvania law requires tenants and landlords to be represented by attorneys during eviction matters.
  
  

Notice

• Once a lawsuit for eviction has been filed, the landlord must notify the tenant of the eviction process that is underway. Pennsylvania law requires the eviction notice to be hand delivered and not posted on the rental property or mailed to the tenant. For leases without written agreements, landlords are only required to give a 15-day notice before evicting, if the eviction occurs between April 1 and September 1. For evictions occurring between September 1 and April 1, 30 days' notice is required.